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Proton or Tuta? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by purplenimblefrog404@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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So, I've been de-googling, and moved my email and calendar to Proton, and I've been using their VPN for a while as well. I really like it, and it works extremely well for me.

But I am slightly annoyed by Proton's choice to stop posting to Mastodon, and their CEO's Trump comments. And I do like Tuta's support for the Fediverse, and their better open-source implementation. But I'm wondering if it's worth it to bother switching again. I tried making a ones month payment to try out both, and my card doesn't want to pay for Tuta (It's finicky about stuff outside the US).

So would it be better to just stick with Proton? Or try to manage to go over to Tuta?

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Indeed. That tweet was just the icing on the cake. I agree that Proton is an issue in that it is far more vendor-locked-in than a standards compliant mail service, but in addition to that, over the years, they have very much over-sold the degree of security their system provides (military-grade encryption anyone?). Read any honest security researcher's review of Proton and it's full of caviates about a system where they both hold your keys and provide you with a web interface. If their marketing was more reasonable, I would maybe trust them more.

If you absolutely need end-to-end encryption and have the ability to direct your correspondent to a particular service (like Proton), I wouldn't choose Email at all. If it had to be Email, you are looking at PGP or S/MIME in a client, but an e2e messenger that is hard to mess-up and has some metadata protections will be far superior in practice.